The purpose of the player is to guess the hole where the number on the ball will fall, and to bet this number.

Bets are made on number, color or a combination of numbers. Each player, without dependence from quantity of participants behind a table, plays against a casino which always has certain advantages.

The roulette wheel

 «The Main character» of roulette is a wheel which is made from qualitative breeds of a tree. If the wheel is made correctly and carefully balanced, it represents the generator of random numbers, and even the most skilled croupier not in a condition to affect ball movement. However there were precedents when the roulette wheel possessed small defect that helped "the thought most over" players to receive the big prizes. Such cases in the internet casino are impossible.

 There are French, American and European roulette. The wheel in each of them has own features. In European on a wheel only 37 holes with numbers from 1 to 36 and 0. In the French roulette the same wheel is used, but apply other rules and other configuration of a table. At the American roulette is present 00 — the double Zero increasing advantage of a casino several times.

Bets

Initially the player needs to decide what to bet. The wheel is divided on two parts: internal and external, therefore also there are all some kinds of bets:

• Inside Bets — so-called internal bets when the player "hopes" that the separate number or group of numbers will win, and puts counters on the numbered part of a table;

• Outside Bets — external bets. The player stakes, for example, on "dozen", on "odds\even", on "color", counters thus display on additional area of a game field;

• Call bets are oral rates which are possible only in the French roulette.

The wheel is twisted after betting. When it stops, winners are announced and other money which were on a game, leave for the casino income. It is necessary to remember that zero or a double zero drop out automatically nulls bets, and casino gets all chips which are present on a game field. Besides, the player can’t change the decision after the croupier will end betting.

Before game you should pay special attention to the minimum and maximum bets which can strongly affect a strategy choice.

The prize depends on the bet

One more moment which is necessary to pay attention to when playing roulette is probability from which this or that bet wins. The size of a prize depends on it. There are eight kinds of the basic bets which are applied both in real, and in an Internet casino.

Internal bets:

 • Straight — the bet on the number. The chip is placed directly on the number which, according to the player opinion, will win. A prize is 35 to 1;

 • Split — the bet on two adjacent numbers. The chip is placed on a line dividing these numbers. The zero participates in game with adjacent 1, 2, and 3 also. A prize is 17 to 1;

• Street — the bet on a row of three numbers. The chip is put on external border of a game field, the general for these numbers. A prize is 11 to 1.

 • Square — the player puts on the row of four numbers and the chip is placed on cross-hair set, uniting these numbers. A prize — 8 to 1;

• Sixline — the bet on two next streets (the bet on six numbers or a line). The chip is placed on a line dividing these blocks and limiting a game field.

External bets happen following kinds:

• Dozen — the bet on a dozen. The player puts on a combination from 12 numbers: «the first 12», «the second 12». A chip is placed in the field, accordingly designated as «1st 12», «2nd 12», «3rd 12», and a prize charge 2 to 1;

 • Column — the bet on a column. For this bet on a game field some blocks «2 to 1», the bet on 12 numbers are provided. A prize 2 to 1;

 • Red/black, odd\even, equal odds, more/less — a prize 1 to 1, and the bet covers 18 numbers and becomes either on color, or on number "characteristic" (whether there it will be even or less 18). The zero does not belong to one of groups of numbers.

Additional bets and rules in the French roulette

The French roulette still has oral bets. Initially they so were called because the player orally instructed where to place counters, giving out them in hands of the croupier:

• Sector Voisins du Zero includes numbers 22, 18, 29, 7, 28, 12, 35, 3, 26, 0, 32, 15, 19, 4, 21, 2, 25. The bet is made on all numbers;

• Sector Tier du Cylindre is a bet at once with 6 chips which have on borders of numbers 5/8, 10/11 13/16, 23/24 27/30, 33/36;

 • Sector Orphelins — the player puts on numbers 17, 34, 6, 1, 20, 14, 31, and 9;

• Sector Zero Spiel — the bet on numbers 12, 35, 3, 26, 0, 32, 15;

• the bet on neighbors — the player closes a counter one number, thus two numbers at the left and two on the right also participate in the bet;

• the bet on last figure — the bet on all numbers which are coming to an end on the same figure, for example, «the Last 3» means the bet on 3, 13, 23,33.

Rule En Prison in the French roulette extends on the bet "equal odds". If the casino adheres to this rule at loss of a zero the bet "equal odds" remains in the field. The bet will lose only in the event that at the subsequent rotation of a wheel the zero again drops out. If the rate wins, to the player its initial size comes back only, the prize of a casino does not pay.

Rule La Partage also is applicable only in the French roulette and is similar to rule En Prison. However here at loss of a zero participants lose half of rate «on equal odds».